On Tuesday 24 January 2012 08:53:55 am Alan Peterson wrote:
>  That's where I need a little aim in coming up with the syntax to execute a 
> proper cron job.

 The recent trend, and one I used before it became popular,
 is to develop a script that does what you want.
 You can write it, run it, test it, all with dummy targets, to get
 it totally debugged.
 Change the directories, files, etc. to the real target, and run it
 manually a few times to be absolutely certain it does what
 you want. Nothing more, nothing less.
 Then, ultimately, merely use cron to call your script when you
 want it automatically called.

 If you have doubts about cron syntax, then use cron to call
 it while it's still using dummy targets, before you make it
 a "live" utility.

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